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This introductory physical chemistry course investigates the relationships between molecular properties and macroscopic chemical system behaviour.
Syllabus :
- The Thermite Reaction
- Benchmarking Thermoliteracy
- Quantization of Energy
- The Hydrogen Chloride Cannon
- Atomic Energy Levels
- Diatomic Molecular Energy Levels
- Polyatomic Molecular Energy Levels
- Ideal Gas Equation of State
- Non-ideal Gas Equations of State
- Gas-Liquid PV Diagrams
- Law of Corresponding States
- Virial Equation of State
- Molecular Interactions
- Other Intermolecular Potentials
- Boltzmann Probability
- Boltzmann Population
- Ideal Gas Internal Energy
- Ideal Gas Equation of State Redux
- van der Waals Equation of State Redux
- The Ensemble Partition Function
- The Molecular Partition Function
- Ideal Monatomic Gas
- Ideal Monatomic Gas: Properties
- Ideal Diatomic Gas
- Ideal Polyatomic Gases
- First Law of Thermodynamics
- Paths of PV Work
- Differentials and State Functions
- Characteristic Ideal Gas Expansion Paths
- Adiabatic Processes
- Microscopic Origin of Pressure
- Enthalpy
- Heat Capacities
- Thermochemistry
- Standard Enthalpy
- Entropy
- Entropy as a State Function
- Spontaneity and the Second Law
- Statistical Entropy
- Computing Entropy
- Entropy and the Partition Function
- Beta and Boltzmann’s Constant
- The Carnot Cycle
- Entropy and Other Thermodynamic Functions
- Third Law of Thermodynamics
- Standard Entropy
- Entropy from the Partition Function
- Third Law Entropies
- Additivity of Entropies
- Helmholtz Free Energy
- Gibbs Free Energy
- Maxwell Relations from A
- Maxwell Relations from G
- Rubber Band Thermodynamics
- Natural Independent Variables
- P and T Dependence of G
